# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-jeffries
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:53:15.813Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-jeffries"
name: "Leonard Jeffries"
slug: "leonard-jeffries"
description: "Leonard Jeffries Jr. is an American political scientist and former academic. He was the departmental chair of Black Studies at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He is the uncle of U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Ohio State University historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries."
tagline: "African-American academic known for Pan-African views"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeffries_BLST101.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1937-01-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.199398666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Jeffries"
    title: "Leonard Jeffries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "ليونارد جيفريز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "ليونارد جيفريز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Jeffries"
    title: "Leonard Jeffries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Jeffries"
    title: "Leonard Jeffries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Jeffries"
    title: "Leonard Jeffries"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6525433"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump